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Brooks Automation Overflows With Upside

The chip-equipment maker is seeing an industry rebound.

While Brooks Automation is still in the midst of restructuring its business model (diversification via life sciences, which is not expected to be accretive until 2013), the majority of revenue still stem from the semiconductor industry, which is experiencing a rebound.

With 2012's semiconductor-capital-equipment spending shaping up to be stronger...